Peerless luthier

In autumn, the maple leaves in Nanchu are turning red, and Zhong Yi sits in the small courtyard of Xiheju with her arms in her arms looking at the clear sky. (.)

Cloudless and sunny.

Warmth spread on his body, very comfortable, Zhongyi closed his eyes, Huatian jumped off Zhongyi's knees, the bell on its neck "jingling bell" rang, Huatian nestled in a circle around his feet, snoring.

Zhong Yi heard the sound of the bell, and while half asleep and half awake, her thoughts drifted far away.

In the Northern Jin Dynasty, in September, Zhong Li put everything in order, took Fan Wenzi's strategy on the road, and kept a low profile all the way to the border of the Northern Jin Dynasty.

The sky is clear, the sky is high and the clouds are light, and a large desolate grassland stretches as far as the eye can see. I don't know where it extends.

The group of them disguised themselves as a caravan, ostentatiously revealing their wealth, and they were easily coveted by bandits.

Zhong Li reined in his horse and squinted his eyes to look ahead.

"Wei Yi, is this the border?"

Wei Yi approached and said: "Yes, because the Western Song Dynasty has always been subject to the Northern Jin Dynasty, there is no obvious dividing line on the surface, but look, Prince, the scorched place in front is the Western Song Dynasty. It's inside."

Zhong Li looked up, they were at a high place, and it was easy to see a large area of ​​scorched grass in the distance.

Zhong Li said, "Does someone do this every year?"

Wei Yidao: "The border officials of the Western Song Dynasty are in charge."

Zhong Li asked, "What did Shuoyu say?"

Wei Yidao: "The king said that it will be like this for now."

Zhong Li nodded and looked around: "This place is too empty, there will be no bandits."

Wei Yidao: "In front is the small canyon of the Western Song Dynasty, and on the top of the mountain is the lair of the bandits, but the terrain is difficult to attack and easy to defend. The local army of the Western Song Dynasty also sent people to encircle and suppress it, but it was not successful."

Zhong Li nodded slightly, and said: "Go forward, don't rush the schedule, you must recharge your batteries."

At this time, the soldiers put on their armor, put on their thin coats, and put on a wide hat on top of their special helmets, pretending to be grown-up workers.

The "caravan" continued to move towards the border of the Western Song Dynasty.

Two days later, they stopped and went to reach the small canyon.

It was a narrow path. Looking up, not strong light seeps in from the break, and there are steep mountain walls on both sides. When people walk here, the cold wind blows over.

Zhong Li reined in his horse and waved: "Stop."

Wei Er approached on horseback and said, "Prince, there is something strange here, it is estimated that there is an ambush above."

Zhong Li nodded slightly: "Follow the plan."

Wei Jiu and Wei Sixteen were at the end of the team. They were both highly skilled in martial arts, so they led the elite soldiers up the canyon from a hidden corner. The road was very steep, and the horseshoes were wrapped with noise-absorbing things, so they were unobtrusive in the canyon.

After a while, there was a sharp whistle from above.

Zhong Li shouted loudly: "Come on!"

The soldiers who had been prepared for a long time drew out their sharp blades, cut off the reins, and rushed up the path on their steeds.

The sound of "rumbling" horseshoes shook the canyon, and the battle began.

Zhong Li clamped his horse's belly and rushed to the front first.

As soon as the knife is out of its sheath, it will be stained with blood.

The ambush soldiers ambushing on both sides of the canyon were shocked, and they all turned around and began to besiege.

They never expected that the hidden mountain path would be discovered, and they even rushed up with mighty soldiers!The people in ambush were killed by Wei Jiu and Wei Shiliu one by one.

Zhong Li said loudly: "Fire the arrow!"

"Swish, whoosh, whoosh—" The tidy sound of breaking the wind whistled past the ears, and the temporarily chaotic bandits shouted, but many fell down. Slowly, the blood of the corpses stained a piece of ground.

The two sides collided and began to fight.

The roar echoed in the canyon, deafening.The Northern Jin army began to blow the horn of the charge, and in an instant, they swarmed up with high morale and began to fight!

Wei Jiu, Wei Shiliu and Wei Ba joined together and led the troops towards the base camp of the bandits.

The rogues fought back quickly, arrows started to be released from the four-corner shooting platform of the cottage, and rolling stones began to fall from the gate of the cottage.

Wei Er shouted: "Get out of the way! Rush the door! Knock the door open!"

Wei Yi led the archers and began to fire rockets. There were not many archers in this group, but their accuracy was very good. With a "boom", the rocket hit the shooting platform, and the flammable part of the cottage door began to burn.

With a swing of his knife, Zhong Li hacked to death the rogues around him, and shouted: "Bring them out!"

The three of Wei Jiu rushed to the door on horseback, and slashed at the door with big knives. After that, a dozen strong men carried the ramming wood and found the right point of strength to hit the door!

"Bang bang bang-"

After a while, the door cracked.

Zhong Li had already led his troops to follow and gathered in front of the gate.

After a while, with a bang, the door burst open, unexpectedly, five or six rough men with beards rushed out of it.

With big knives in their hands, they easily killed a few Northern Jin soldiers. While laughing wildly, they rode big horses and rushed at the Northern Jin soldiers gathered in front of the door, while slashing and killing with bloody big knives.

A burly bandit leader shouted: "Northern Jin people! Go to hell!"

Zhong Li stood not far away, with an evil smile, put away his knife, drew the arrow from the quiver behind his back, and drew the bow.

"Whoosh!"

"what!"

A bloodstain was drawn on the man's face, and he covered it with his left hand reflexively. Zhong Li shouted loudly, mounted his horse and rushed over, and cut off his left arm quickly and smoothly with one knife.

The screams rang in his ears, Zhong Li sneered.Go back to the horse, and then slash straight at the man.

"Bang!" The heavy object fell to the ground, and blood sprayed.

The two sides were silent for a moment, and then suddenly began to fight!

A steady stream of rogues came out of the gate with a grinning face and began to hack and kill. The weapons collided, and the arrows flew around, piercing into the flesh and blood.

Zhong Li yelled: "Scatter! Attract people!" Then he rushed forward and began to fight, and then there was chaos.

Blood was splashed at the entrance of the cottage, the cottage was built very high, and a big blue sky could be seen. At this time, the smell of blood rushed to the sky, but the sky was still clear.

In the distant territory of Southern Chu, Huatian was running and jumping, and the bells were ringing. Zhong Yi returned to the room and took out a somewhat rusty bell.

"Dinglingling——", the ringing sound was crisp.

The broadsword hit Zhong Li's right side, and Wei Jiu picked up his spear, "噗!" Zhong Li took the opportunity to stab the leader of the bandits in the heart.

The man fell down "Wahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!"

Zhong Li glanced coldly, turned around and continued to charge into the enemy formation.

At this moment, Zhong Yi was sitting in the room, put down the bell, sat in front of the desk, and started playing the piano.

The clean eyebrows are lowered, and the slender fingers gently cover the strings.

"Deng—" This is "Battle Song", Ah Li's favorite song when he was dancing swords.

"kill!"

The overwhelming shouts sounded, Zhong Li's cheeks were stained with blood, and his purple pupils were bloodshot: "Go up the hill!"

Above the canyon, there is a raised cliff, and the previous Wei Si has already made preparations.

Zhong Li's scarlet cloak was blowing wildly in the wind, carrying the hatred of the bandits, he ran towards the hillside.

The warm sunlight lightly shone on Zhong Yi's black hair, and his fingers were playing a passionate piece of music.

He remembered a pair of black eyes, and a person was looking at him with a smile.

The rogues were led down the hillside by Zhong Li, Zhong Li turned around and said, "Let go!"

"Swish, whoosh—" densely packed arrows shot from all directions.

"Boom—" The boulder rolled down the hillside.

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

Zhong Li rode on a tall horse with an indifferent expression.

Hanada climbed onto the table and looked out the window.

At this moment, it was almost dusk, and the setting sun was blood red.

"Meow--"

Wei Yi led his troops to attack the cottage, the archers' rockets set fire to the house, Wei Ba rushed up with the last troops from the small path, raised his knives, slashed and killed, his movements were neat, wherever the sound of horseshoes passed, blood stains spread everywhere.

Zhong Li shouted loudly: "Total attack!"

Wei Er beside him glanced at him, and said loudly: "Leave no one alive! Kill them all!"

Zhong Li looked at Wei Er, who left on horseback.

Can't stop now!

Zhong Li drove his horse to encircle and suppress the last rogues.

After the song was played, Zhong Yi's fingers felt numb.He was slightly startled, looked out the window, and murmured: "Why is the sky so red?"

Hanada twisted her butt: "Meow?"

Zhong Yi took out the bell in his bosom, the engraved word "Li" was still there, Zhong Yi said softly: "A Li."

There was silence, soldiers inspecting the battlefield, and the cottage was dead.

From morning to afternoon, everyone was exhausted physically and mentally, relying on bandaging their wounds.

Zhong Li looked at it for a while, then walked to the edge of the cliff, watching the last rays of the setting sun.His body was stained with his own blood, more mixed with other people's blood. He took off the scarlet cloak that was cut by the sharp knife and threw it off the cliff.

That touch of scarlet hovered in the wind and slowly fell.

The wind blew past, Zhong Li closed his bloodshot eyes and sighed heavily.

At the end of September, Prince Shuohui of the Northern Jin Dynasty wiped out the bandits who had been in trouble for many years in one fell swoop.

When the border officials in the Western Song Dynasty learned about it, they hurriedly erected a stone monument under the small canyon to praise the meritorious deeds of the Prince of the Northern Jin Dynasty.

At the beginning of October, the Northern Jin Dynasty promulgated the "Regulations on the Commercial Routes of the Northern Jin and Western Song Dynasties". Since then, the Northern Jin border defense stations have been set up in the small canyons of the Western Song Dynasty.

In mid-October, Li Rude died of illness, and Wang mourned. He personally wrote a eulogy, and the whole city mourned.

In mid-November, the common people jointly listed the list of corrupt officials. After reviewing by Dong Chenghe, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, he ordered the property of the Liru family to be collected into the state treasury.

At the end of November, Liru's family's property was counted. Due to the excessive amount of corruption and public anger, the king ordered the men of Liru's family to be sent to the frontier, and their wives, daughters and family members were enslaved for life.

In December, Prince Shuohui led troops to repel the clan separatist forces in the northern part of the Northern Jin Dynasty, and at the same time took the salt mines, gold and silver and other minerals here to the Northern Jin Dynasty.

At the end of January, Prince Shuohui was named General Zhenping.

At the beginning of February, Yueshiba led his troops to rebel, and was beheaded by Prince Shuohui and his generals. Since then, the military power has returned, and only the Dongcheng clan is left among the three great families.

In the Northern Jin Dynasty, in winter, snowflakes fell, and in an instant, Xiucheng was completely white.

In the vast snow, a handsome and tall man was riding on a red horse, quietly looking into the distance.